Mike Tyka
@mtyka.bsky.social
#Climate, #science, #MachineLearning, #SciArt, #Biochemistry, #AI #Media #Art, #Sculpture, #GlassArt
Climate Researcher @Google
Prev: Protein Folding @UW with David Baker, PhD @Bristol
https://fediscience.org/@mtyka
https://www.miketyka.com
Climate Researcher @Google
Prev: Protein Folding @UW with David Baker, PhD @Bristol
https://fediscience.org/@mtyka
https://www.miketyka.com
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Mike Tyka
@mtyka.bsky.social
· Jan 22
Negative Emission Enabled by Combining Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement and Waste Concrete Upcycling
Electrochemical ocean alkalinity enhancement (OAE) is a promising technology for negative carbon emissions, but the resulting dilute acid stream poses a disposal challenge. This study presents an inno...
pubs.acs.org
Our new paper is out: We're exploring the intersection of electrochemical OAE and concrete waste recycling - turns out they're a match made in heaven. One produces weak waste acid and the other requires weak acid to valorize demolition waste!
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
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The protein concentration in the cytoplasm is so high that the average protein has a water hydration shell with a thickness of only ≈ 10 water molecules separating it from the adjacent protein hydration shell.
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November 10, 2025 at 12:57 PM
The protein concentration in the cytoplasm is so high that the average protein has a water hydration shell with a thickness of only ≈ 10 water molecules separating it from the adjacent protein hydration shell.
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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 11:05 AM
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."
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November 5, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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WOW. 81% of women 18-29 voted for Mamdani, 80% for Sherril, and 78% for Spanberger.
Gen Z women aren't playing around.
Gen Z women aren't playing around.
November 5, 2025 at 4:07 AM
WOW. 81% of women 18-29 voted for Mamdani, 80% for Sherril, and 78% for Spanberger.
Gen Z women aren't playing around.
Gen Z women aren't playing around.
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🦇 Astronomy Picture of the Day
Lynds Dark Nebula 43, a.k.a. the Cosmic Bat nebula
Credit: Team Ciel Austral www.cielaustral.com
www.star.ucl.ac.uk/~apod/apod/a...
#APOD 🧪🔭
Lynds Dark Nebula 43, a.k.a. the Cosmic Bat nebula
Credit: Team Ciel Austral www.cielaustral.com
www.star.ucl.ac.uk/~apod/apod/a...
#APOD 🧪🔭
October 30, 2025 at 2:23 PM
🦇 Astronomy Picture of the Day
Lynds Dark Nebula 43, a.k.a. the Cosmic Bat nebula
Credit: Team Ciel Austral www.cielaustral.com
www.star.ucl.ac.uk/~apod/apod/a...
#APOD 🧪🔭
Lynds Dark Nebula 43, a.k.a. the Cosmic Bat nebula
Credit: Team Ciel Austral www.cielaustral.com
www.star.ucl.ac.uk/~apod/apod/a...
#APOD 🧪🔭
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INTERNATIONAL #ROSETTA MISSION
Comet 67P/CHURYUMOV-GERASIMENKO
7 Feb 2016
Distance to target: 47.5km
OSIRIS NAC 50x orange + blue filters.
ESA/ROSETTA/OSIRIS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA/j. Roger
Comet 67P/CHURYUMOV-GERASIMENKO
7 Feb 2016
Distance to target: 47.5km
OSIRIS NAC 50x orange + blue filters.
ESA/ROSETTA/OSIRIS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA/j. Roger
October 29, 2025 at 7:35 PM
INTERNATIONAL #ROSETTA MISSION
Comet 67P/CHURYUMOV-GERASIMENKO
7 Feb 2016
Distance to target: 47.5km
OSIRIS NAC 50x orange + blue filters.
ESA/ROSETTA/OSIRIS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA/j. Roger
Comet 67P/CHURYUMOV-GERASIMENKO
7 Feb 2016
Distance to target: 47.5km
OSIRIS NAC 50x orange + blue filters.
ESA/ROSETTA/OSIRIS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA/j. Roger
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dear US friends, when a sitting president (re)builds the seat of government, it almost always means the president has no intention of leaving at the end of term. your African friends with decades of experience
October 24, 2025 at 1:39 PM
dear US friends, when a sitting president (re)builds the seat of government, it almost always means the president has no intention of leaving at the end of term. your African friends with decades of experience
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'Get rid of the migrants or I'll become a migrant' is quite the argument
October 22, 2025 at 12:59 PM
'Get rid of the migrants or I'll become a migrant' is quite the argument
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they are so close to understanding the entire point of trade
BREAKING: The US is rolling back tariffs on “products that cannot be grown, mined, or naturally produced in the United States," per WSJ
October 20, 2025 at 12:23 AM
they are so close to understanding the entire point of trade
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Does ocean model resolution change how fast CO₂ equilibrates with the air?
In our new study with @bachlennart.bsky.social and @mtyka.bsky.social, we found small resolution effects but large inter-model spreads —highlighting the next goal for improving mCDR predictions. link: doi.org/10.1029/2024...
In our new study with @bachlennart.bsky.social and @mtyka.bsky.social, we found small resolution effects but large inter-model spreads —highlighting the next goal for improving mCDR predictions. link: doi.org/10.1029/2024...
October 10, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Does ocean model resolution change how fast CO₂ equilibrates with the air?
In our new study with @bachlennart.bsky.social and @mtyka.bsky.social, we found small resolution effects but large inter-model spreads —highlighting the next goal for improving mCDR predictions. link: doi.org/10.1029/2024...
In our new study with @bachlennart.bsky.social and @mtyka.bsky.social, we found small resolution effects but large inter-model spreads —highlighting the next goal for improving mCDR predictions. link: doi.org/10.1029/2024...
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I feel like this might be a clue to our current problems. We don't read anymore.
October 8, 2025 at 10:02 AM
I feel like this might be a clue to our current problems. We don't read anymore.
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The great Andrew Zimmern: "Eliminating PFAS in cookware would reduce the spread of contamination, protect future generations and, as a bonus, allow us to rediscover how to actually cook." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...
Opinion | Relax, America, There Is Life After Nonstick Pans
www.nytimes.com
October 8, 2025 at 2:03 PM
The great Andrew Zimmern: "Eliminating PFAS in cookware would reduce the spread of contamination, protect future generations and, as a bonus, allow us to rediscover how to actually cook." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...
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Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
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October 8, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
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I'm not sure many folks realize just how persistent the warming from CO2 is.
Here is a set of 1000-year climate model runs (using FaIR) simulating one year of CO2 emissions (40 gigatons in 2020); a millennia later the world has not cooled back down!
Here is a set of 1000-year climate model runs (using FaIR) simulating one year of CO2 emissions (40 gigatons in 2020); a millennia later the world has not cooled back down!
September 4, 2025 at 10:48 PM
I'm not sure many folks realize just how persistent the warming from CO2 is.
Here is a set of 1000-year climate model runs (using FaIR) simulating one year of CO2 emissions (40 gigatons in 2020); a millennia later the world has not cooled back down!
Here is a set of 1000-year climate model runs (using FaIR) simulating one year of CO2 emissions (40 gigatons in 2020); a millennia later the world has not cooled back down!
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Whoa. GORGEOUS new image from JWST 🔭 dropped today: "what appears to be a craggy, starlit mountaintop kissed by wispy clouds is actually a cosmic dust-scape being sculpted by the scorching radiation and punishing winds of massive newborn stars" (!) More info at: webbtelescope.org/contents/new...
September 4, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Whoa. GORGEOUS new image from JWST 🔭 dropped today: "what appears to be a craggy, starlit mountaintop kissed by wispy clouds is actually a cosmic dust-scape being sculpted by the scorching radiation and punishing winds of massive newborn stars" (!) More info at: webbtelescope.org/contents/new...
New paper estimates the capacity of underground CO2 storage to be just 1290–2710Gt of CO2 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
That's not as much as it sounds - only 30-60 yrs of current emissions, that's all - we couldn't even pay back our CO2 debt this way, never mind keep burning fossil fuels with CCS
That's not as much as it sounds - only 30-60 yrs of current emissions, that's all - we couldn't even pay back our CO2 debt this way, never mind keep burning fossil fuels with CCS
A prudent planetary limit for geologic carbon storage - Nature
A risk-based, spatially explicit analysis of carbon storage in sedimentary basins establishes a prudent planetary limit of around 1,460 Gt of geological carbon storage, which requires making explicit ...
www.nature.com
September 4, 2025 at 8:33 PM
New paper estimates the capacity of underground CO2 storage to be just 1290–2710Gt of CO2 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
That's not as much as it sounds - only 30-60 yrs of current emissions, that's all - we couldn't even pay back our CO2 debt this way, never mind keep burning fossil fuels with CCS
That's not as much as it sounds - only 30-60 yrs of current emissions, that's all - we couldn't even pay back our CO2 debt this way, never mind keep burning fossil fuels with CCS
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yes sure, but let @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social remind you that it's really more about POLES AND WIRES heatmap.news/energy/why-i...
September 4, 2025 at 8:29 PM
yes sure, but let @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social remind you that it's really more about POLES AND WIRES heatmap.news/energy/why-i...
Our new paper with Mengyang Zhou, Elizabeth Yankovsky, and Dustin Carroll is out as a preprint: egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20... "Substantial inter-model variation in OAE efficiency between the CESM2/MARBL and ECCO-Darwin ocean biogeochemistry models"
September 4, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Our new paper with Mengyang Zhou, Elizabeth Yankovsky, and Dustin Carroll is out as a preprint: egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20... "Substantial inter-model variation in OAE efficiency between the CESM2/MARBL and ECCO-Darwin ocean biogeochemistry models"
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This would more or less halt the ability of scientists and academics from visiting the US to give talks, attend meetings and workshops, collaborate with peers on research and I think that is the primary point. 🧪
The State Department is proposing requiring applicants for business and tourist visas to post a bond of up to $15,000 to enter the United States, a move that may make the process unaffordable for many.
U.S. may require visa applicants to post bond up to $15,000 to enter country
The State Department is proposing requiring applicants for business and tourist visas to post a bond of up to $15,000 to apply to enter the United States.
buff.ly
August 5, 2025 at 1:33 AM
This would more or less halt the ability of scientists and academics from visiting the US to give talks, attend meetings and workshops, collaborate with peers on research and I think that is the primary point. 🧪
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It is fucking insane that we had a decade of people complaining about the dangers of cancel culture, and now literally hundreds of thousands of people are being purged from government jobs for ideological reasons, but that is not cancel culture.
July 25, 2025 at 1:35 PM
It is fucking insane that we had a decade of people complaining about the dangers of cancel culture, and now literally hundreds of thousands of people are being purged from government jobs for ideological reasons, but that is not cancel culture.
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The largest photomosaic of the Andromeda galaxy, assembled from Hubble observations, took more than 10 years of data collecting and was created from more than 600 snapshots!
➡️ And it's available for download in really large sizes: go.nasa.gov/44Uvyhc 🔭 🧪
➡️ And it's available for download in really large sizes: go.nasa.gov/44Uvyhc 🔭 🧪
July 17, 2025 at 6:15 PM
The largest photomosaic of the Andromeda galaxy, assembled from Hubble observations, took more than 10 years of data collecting and was created from more than 600 snapshots!
➡️ And it's available for download in really large sizes: go.nasa.gov/44Uvyhc 🔭 🧪
➡️ And it's available for download in really large sizes: go.nasa.gov/44Uvyhc 🔭 🧪
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below is something i still truly cannot believe!
Last week, Grok called for the extermination of the Jewish people and called himself MechaHitler.
This week, the Department of Defense announced it was using Grok as an AI partner.
In response, not a single Democratic member of Congress or progressive organization has left X.
This week, the Department of Defense announced it was using Grok as an AI partner.
In response, not a single Democratic member of Congress or progressive organization has left X.
July 14, 2025 at 9:29 PM
below is something i still truly cannot believe!
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“It’s called the Great Leap Forward. We’re going to be leaping, and we’ll be leaping forward very strongly. People are saying they’ve never seen leaping like this before.”
February 26, 2025 at 2:48 AM
“It’s called the Great Leap Forward. We’re going to be leaping, and we’ll be leaping forward very strongly. People are saying they’ve never seen leaping like this before.”