Jorge Colón
@jorgelcolon.bsky.social
Puerto Rican Professor of Inorganic Chemistry, husband, father, grandfather, salsa dancer, mojito lover. Amo a Luz, Liany, Loly, Natalia, Jiany, Caribe, Kaiamar y Sixtito.
“Katrina showed me that climate change doesn’t just create disasters; it magnifies the injustices we’ve already allowed to exist.”
What New Orleans Taught Me About Climate, Justice, and the Future blog.ucs.org/delta-merner...
What New Orleans Taught Me About Climate, Justice, and the Future blog.ucs.org/delta-merner...
What New Orleans Taught Me About Climate, Justice, and the Future
Katrina showed me that climate change doesn’t just create disasters; it magnifies the injustices we’ve already allowed to exist.
blog.ucs.org
August 28, 2025 at 6:29 PM
“Katrina showed me that climate change doesn’t just create disasters; it magnifies the injustices we’ve already allowed to exist.”
What New Orleans Taught Me About Climate, Justice, and the Future blog.ucs.org/delta-merner...
What New Orleans Taught Me About Climate, Justice, and the Future blog.ucs.org/delta-merner...
Contrarian climate assessment from U.S. government draws swift pushback | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Contrarian climate assessment from U.S. government draws swift pushback
Researchers say DOE report cherry-picks data to downplay threat of greenhouse gases
www.science.org
August 3, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Contrarian climate assessment from U.S. government draws swift pushback | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
In ‘blow to the environment,’ EPA begins to dismantle its research office | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
In ‘blow to the environment,’ EPA begins to dismantle its research office
Extensive layoffs could have wide-ranging impacts on conservation and human health
www.science.org
July 23, 2025 at 10:19 PM
In ‘blow to the environment,’ EPA begins to dismantle its research office | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
How the White House is dismantling the heart of US climate policy cen.acs.org/environment/...
How the White House is dismantling the heart of US climate policy
Gutting the National Climate Assessment is just one way the Trump administration is undermining the legal justification to limit greenhouse gas emissions
cen.acs.org
July 23, 2025 at 10:05 PM
How the White House is dismantling the heart of US climate policy cen.acs.org/environment/...
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Saddened to hear of the passing of luminary scientist, Gabor Somorjai. With Gabor, @berkeleylab.lbl.gov has led the way in understanding materials through their surfaces, be that structure, dynamics, sorption, and transformations relevant to energy applications. He will be missed.
July 9, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Saddened to hear of the passing of luminary scientist, Gabor Somorjai. With Gabor, @berkeleylab.lbl.gov has led the way in understanding materials through their surfaces, be that structure, dynamics, sorption, and transformations relevant to energy applications. He will be missed.
During my talk this morning at the International Symposium on Intercalation Compounds #ISIC22 in France, I couldn't resist presenting this slide about the gold medal won my our daughter Luz Marie Grande Pérez in the Women's Bodyboarding category at the Panamerican Surfing Games in Guatemala.
July 9, 2025 at 10:16 AM
During my talk this morning at the International Symposium on Intercalation Compounds #ISIC22 in France, I couldn't resist presenting this slide about the gold medal won my our daughter Luz Marie Grande Pérez in the Women's Bodyboarding category at the Panamerican Surfing Games in Guatemala.
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HHS Sec. RFK Jr. is the “most unqualified, misfit secretary…Ever,” says @irwinredlener.bsky.social. His replacement of CDC vaccine experts w/ ‘a bunch of cranks’ is emblematic of “a government committed to destroying the truth-generating enterprise of science,” says Science journalist Laurie Garrett
‘A bunch of cranks’: RFK Jr. stacks CDC Vaccine Advisory panel with anti-vaxxers and conspiracists
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. gutted the existing CDC Vaccine Advisory panel, replacing existing experts with anti-vaxxers and conspiracists. MSNBC Public Health Analyst Dr. Irwin Redlener says “the actions that they are doing under his direction are undermining, not only essential vaccine information for Americans, but they’re pulling the legs out of the vaccine programs globally.” Pulitzer-Prize winning science journalist Laurie Garrett says this new committee is emblematic of “a government committed to destroying the truth-generating enterprise of science.”
www.msnbc.com
June 29, 2025 at 6:10 PM
HHS Sec. RFK Jr. is the “most unqualified, misfit secretary…Ever,” says @irwinredlener.bsky.social. His replacement of CDC vaccine experts w/ ‘a bunch of cranks’ is emblematic of “a government committed to destroying the truth-generating enterprise of science,” says Science journalist Laurie Garrett
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Mamdani turned up at BAYO at Barclay Center yesterday and said he was going to fight to get Haiti off the travel ban and he said Haiti correctly
June 29, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Mamdani turned up at BAYO at Barclay Center yesterday and said he was going to fight to get Haiti off the travel ban and he said Haiti correctly
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Turning recently closed #coal mines into solar energy plants could generate enough energy to power Germany by 2030 — a rare chance to bring together land restoration, local job creation and clean energy deployment, finds new @globalenergymon.bsky.social report.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Turning coalmines into solar energy plants ‘could add 300GW of renewables by 2030’
Solar panels on defunct surface mines could put land to productive use for renewable generation, report says
www.theguardian.com
June 24, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Turning recently closed #coal mines into solar energy plants could generate enough energy to power Germany by 2030 — a rare chance to bring together land restoration, local job creation and clean energy deployment, finds new @globalenergymon.bsky.social report.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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i almost can’t read this it makes me so angry. delusional grifters with purity fetishes and eugenic worldviews have brought pain, suffering and death to children www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/u...
‘I Feel Like I’ve Been Lied To’: When a Measles Outbreak Hits Home
www.nytimes.com
June 23, 2025 at 3:24 AM
i almost can’t read this it makes me so angry. delusional grifters with purity fetishes and eugenic worldviews have brought pain, suffering and death to children www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/u...
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very important!
June 19, 2025 at 3:18 PM
very important!
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the destruction of chattel slavery is one of the great accomplishments in our nation's history and the reason conservatives hate celebrating it is because doing so legitimizes the black counter-narrative of the united states
June 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
the destruction of chattel slavery is one of the great accomplishments in our nation's history and the reason conservatives hate celebrating it is because doing so legitimizes the black counter-narrative of the united states
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China is on course to overtake the United States as the world’s largest contributor to research
https://go.nature.com/40axZdT
https://go.nature.com/40axZdT
In science’s new era, open and transparent cooperation remains key
As China continues its scientific ascent, the rest of the world should keep engaging.
go.nature.com
June 17, 2025 at 5:26 PM
China is on course to overtake the United States as the world’s largest contributor to research
https://go.nature.com/40axZdT
https://go.nature.com/40axZdT
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CNN’s reporter on scene in Los Angeles: I’m being detained..
June 10, 2025 at 4:15 AM
CNN’s reporter on scene in Los Angeles: I’m being detained..
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More than a century after the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921, one of the most horrific episodes of racial violence in U.S. history, the city’s mayor announced a $105 million reparations package on Sunday. It is the first large-scale plan committing funds to address the impact of the atrocity.
$105 Million Reparations Package for Tulsa Race Massacre Unveiled by Mayor
www.nytimes.com
June 1, 2025 at 11:32 PM
More than a century after the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921, one of the most horrific episodes of racial violence in U.S. history, the city’s mayor announced a $105 million reparations package on Sunday. It is the first large-scale plan committing funds to address the impact of the atrocity.
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I urge everyone to read Unbreaking’s new page on everything the govt is doing to destroy & diminish medical research funding.
It’s the best thing I’ve read on this topic: @lizneeley.bsky.social & co have such done an incredible job.
unbreaking.org/issues/medic...
It’s the best thing I’ve read on this topic: @lizneeley.bsky.social & co have such done an incredible job.
unbreaking.org/issues/medic...
Medical Research Funding — Unbreaking
How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.
unbreaking.org
May 30, 2025 at 9:38 PM
I urge everyone to read Unbreaking’s new page on everything the govt is doing to destroy & diminish medical research funding.
It’s the best thing I’ve read on this topic: @lizneeley.bsky.social & co have such done an incredible job.
unbreaking.org/issues/medic...
It’s the best thing I’ve read on this topic: @lizneeley.bsky.social & co have such done an incredible job.
unbreaking.org/issues/medic...
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Warming of +1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels is too high for the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, and even the current climate forcing of +1.2 °C is likely to lead to several meters of sea-level rise, according to a study in Communications Earth & Environment. 🧪
Warming of +1.5 °C is too high for polar ice sheets - Communications Earth & Environment
Warming of +1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels is too high for the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, and even the current climate forcing of +1.2 °C is likely to lead to several meters of sea-level rise, meaning that only a return to +1 °C or lower will avoid extensive loss and damage to coastal populations, according to a synthesis of recent evidence.
go.nature.com
May 26, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Warming of +1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels is too high for the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, and even the current climate forcing of +1.2 °C is likely to lead to several meters of sea-level rise, according to a study in Communications Earth & Environment. 🧪
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The authors of a Comment article in Nature discuss the challenges of modeling hurricanes affecting the United States because of climate change. “Our overall opinion is that present US hurricane hazard is greater than the longer-term historical average.” 🧪
Hurricane risk in a changing climate — the role of uncertainty
When it comes to modelling how global warming will affect storms hitting the United States, some factors are better understood than others.
go.nature.com
May 26, 2025 at 4:42 PM
The authors of a Comment article in Nature discuss the challenges of modeling hurricanes affecting the United States because of climate change. “Our overall opinion is that present US hurricane hazard is greater than the longer-term historical average.” 🧪