Meade Krosby
@meadekrosby.bsky.social
Climate impacts and adaptation for nature and people. Senior Scientist @ Climate Impacts Group & Univ. Director @ NW Climate Adaptation Science Center, U of Washington. Surfer/paddler. Settler on Coast Salish land. She/her. Personal account - views mine.
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Meade Krosby
@meadekrosby.bsky.social
· Sep 15
Since I haven't seen one yet, here's a starter pack of scientists actively working in the climate adaptation and resilience space, including researchers as well as climate service providers! 🌎🧪
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How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 AM
How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
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Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with your senator's office.
If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
November 9, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with your senator's office.
If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
Timeline cleanse: smokebush (Cotinus) ablaze.
November 9, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Timeline cleanse: smokebush (Cotinus) ablaze.
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So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
November 9, 2025 at 12:10 AM
So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
Adaptation 🤝 Mitigation
"Rooftop solar is spreading fast in Jamaica, and people with panels got their power back almost immediately. The ‘entire neighborhood benefits,’ one resident said."
Jamaicans Have Been Turning to Solar Power. It Paid Off After the Storm.
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Adaptation 🤝 Mitigation
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Learning that our gas company was required to disconnect our gas line for free was absolutely a joyful moment.
"Just warning you, it'll be $10k if you ever want to hook it up again" - thanks, but that's not going to be a problem.
"Just warning you, it'll be $10k if you ever want to hook it up again" - thanks, but that's not going to be a problem.
One last thing, though: I cannot emphasize enough the joy and satisfaction I've gotten from every major step in the home decarbonization process. Maybe it's Type 2 fun, but the sense of agency and sticking it to fossil fuels despite their best efforts is priceless. Everybody deserves that privilege.
November 8, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Learning that our gas company was required to disconnect our gas line for free was absolutely a joyful moment.
"Just warning you, it'll be $10k if you ever want to hook it up again" - thanks, but that's not going to be a problem.
"Just warning you, it'll be $10k if you ever want to hook it up again" - thanks, but that's not going to be a problem.
If there's a plus side here, it's that it can also be galvanizing - nothing makes the need for strong policy encouraging electrification more clear than trying to decarbonize your home (or life) on your own.
One way to find yourself extremely disheartened about the prospects for residential electrification is to talk to any homeowner who has actually attempted to electrify.
November 8, 2025 at 9:44 PM
If there's a plus side here, it's that it can also be galvanizing - nothing makes the need for strong policy encouraging electrification more clear than trying to decarbonize your home (or life) on your own.
Hey all you might want to check your "require alt text" setting - mine got turned off and it sounds like it's happened to others, too (presumably with recent updates).
And if you've never done this, now's a good time:
Settings → Accessibility → Require alt text before posting
And if you've never done this, now's a good time:
Settings → Accessibility → Require alt text before posting
November 7, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Hey all you might want to check your "require alt text" setting - mine got turned off and it sounds like it's happened to others, too (presumably with recent updates).
And if you've never done this, now's a good time:
Settings → Accessibility → Require alt text before posting
And if you've never done this, now's a good time:
Settings → Accessibility → Require alt text before posting
Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).
Rosalind Franklin and the damage of gender harassment
Spurred by a recent report on sexual harassment in academia, our columnist revisits a historical case and reflects on what has changed—and what hasn’t
www.science.org
November 7, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).
With strapped state budgets and federal climate funding slashed, the value of Washington's Climate Commitment Act has never been more clear: it continues to send billions to communities to advance clean energy & resilience - $3.5 billion since it went into effect in 2023. Other states, take note.
With the state strapped for cash, Democrats’ chief budget writer in the Washington Senate has told colleagues there’s no money available for new spending they might desire next year.
Money crunch puts kibosh on WA state lawmakers’ wish lists
With the state strapped for cash, Democrats’ chief budget writer in the Washington Senate has told colleagues there’s no money available for new spending they might desire next year.
www.kuow.org
November 7, 2025 at 7:08 PM
With strapped state budgets and federal climate funding slashed, the value of Washington's Climate Commitment Act has never been more clear: it continues to send billions to communities to advance clean energy & resilience - $3.5 billion since it went into effect in 2023. Other states, take note.
Hey fellow alums: if you'd like to voice your displeasure, here is the contact info for Cornell President, Michael Kotlikoff.
(607) 255-5201
president@cornell.edu
(607) 255-5201
president@cornell.edu
BREAKING: Cornell caved.
Here is the settlement agreement, signed today by the university's president, Michael Kotlikoff: statements.cornell.edu/2025/documen...
Here is the settlement agreement, signed today by the university's president, Michael Kotlikoff: statements.cornell.edu/2025/documen...
November 7, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Hey fellow alums: if you'd like to voice your displeasure, here is the contact info for Cornell President, Michael Kotlikoff.
(607) 255-5201
president@cornell.edu
(607) 255-5201
president@cornell.edu
As a Cornell alum, this is beyond disappointing. Not just morally but strategically - have they not learned capitulation won't protect us?
Breaking News: Cornell University reached an agreement with the Trump administration that would restore hundreds of millions in funding to the university. It's expected to pay a $30 million fine to the government and to invest $30 million in agriculture and farming programs.
Cornell Reaches Deal with Trump Administration to Restore Research Funds
The Ivy League university had warned of layoffs after the Trump administration stripped it of funds this year. The cuts were among the deepest in higher education.
nyti.ms
November 7, 2025 at 5:43 PM
As a Cornell alum, this is beyond disappointing. Not just morally but strategically - have they not learned capitulation won't protect us?
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Indeed, he was allowed to to kill all those children because he is so rich
The man who ended USAID is the world's first trillionaire
November 7, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Indeed, he was allowed to to kill all those children because he is so rich
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To put this in scale, Elon Musk's salary from Tesla alone could fund the SNAP program for the entire country into 2034.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk scored a resounding victory on Thursday as shareholders approved a pay package of as much as $878 billion over the next decade, endorsing his vision of morphing the EV maker into an AI and robotics juggernaut.
Tesla shareholders approve $878 billion pay plan for Elon Musk
Tesla CEO Elon Musk scored a resounding victory on Thursday as shareholders approved a pay package of as much as $878 billion over the next decade, endorsing his vision of morphing the EV maker into an AI and robotics juggernaut.
reut.rs
November 6, 2025 at 10:19 PM
To put this in scale, Elon Musk's salary from Tesla alone could fund the SNAP program for the entire country into 2034.
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If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.
November 5, 2025 at 7:10 AM
If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.
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The blueprint for winning big on climate also came out last night. No more technocratic, policy wonk approaches. People showed they care about utility bills, free buses, affordable housing, etc. These are all climate issues. Talk about climate in terms people understand and experience.
November 5, 2025 at 2:38 PM
The blueprint for winning big on climate also came out last night. No more technocratic, policy wonk approaches. People showed they care about utility bills, free buses, affordable housing, etc. These are all climate issues. Talk about climate in terms people understand and experience.
Sold-out crowd for @thewaroncars.bsky.social in Seattle tonight, with more than one shoutout to New York’s mayor-elect:
“This is a man who got people to talk about buses. That is a superhero thing to do.”
“This is a man who got people to talk about buses. That is a superhero thing to do.”
November 6, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Sold-out crowd for @thewaroncars.bsky.social in Seattle tonight, with more than one shoutout to New York’s mayor-elect:
“This is a man who got people to talk about buses. That is a superhero thing to do.”
“This is a man who got people to talk about buses. That is a superhero thing to do.”
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I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video.
I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children.
But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.
I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children.
But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.
Federal agents pulling a woman out of Rayito Del Sol, a daycare by Lane Tech high school
November 5, 2025 at 9:42 PM
I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video.
I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children.
But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.
I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children.
But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.
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Golden hour, Pacific time.
November 6, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Golden hour, Pacific time.
The speed with which salmon have returned to the Klamath - like the Elwha - after dam removal is overwhelmingly hopeful. And in both cases thanks to decades of tireless advocacy by local Tribes.
Grateful to spend two days on the Klamath watching chinook, liberated by dam removal, return to streams from which they’d been precluded since the Titanic sank. Fish are everywhere, in numbers that stagger the mind & locations that biologists figured would take years to repopulate. Too beautiful.
November 5, 2025 at 11:03 PM
The speed with which salmon have returned to the Klamath - like the Elwha - after dam removal is overwhelmingly hopeful. And in both cases thanks to decades of tireless advocacy by local Tribes.
“To get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us." That’s right.
November 5, 2025 at 4:40 AM
“To get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us." That’s right.
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”your struggle is ours, too” is such an amazing moral vision and an actual alternative to those who cant abandon marginalized people fast enough
November 5, 2025 at 4:34 AM
”your struggle is ours, too” is such an amazing moral vision and an actual alternative to those who cant abandon marginalized people fast enough
“Hope is alive.” Amen.
November 5, 2025 at 4:29 AM
“Hope is alive.” Amen.
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Maybe dumping poop on voters from an airplane is not a surefire electoral strategy
November 5, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Maybe dumping poop on voters from an airplane is not a surefire electoral strategy
My phone is blowing up with family in Virginia celebrating. Loving this for them, and for us. The night is off to a great start.
November 5, 2025 at 1:01 AM
My phone is blowing up with family in Virginia celebrating. Loving this for them, and for us. The night is off to a great start.