Chad Small
@smallthoughts.bsky.social
Atmospheric Sciences Grad student | Freelance Reporter | Presently: Climate Fellow @bulletinatomic.bsky.social | Fmr: Data Fellow @gristnews.bsky.social
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politics idea: love the city you want to be in charge of
November 5, 2025 at 4:19 AM
politics idea: love the city you want to be in charge of
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A huge, huge problem
A large majority of U.S. adults now get news digitally, but nondigital news consumers are less likely to say they extremely often or often encounter inaccurate news.
Read more on Americans’ views of information accuracy and distinguishing truth from fiction:
Read more on Americans’ views of information accuracy and distinguishing truth from fiction:
Many Americans say they often come across inaccurate news – and have a hard time knowing what’s true
Those who report often encountering inaccurate news are more likely than those who rarely or never do to say it’s hard to know what is true (59% vs. 31%).
www.pewresearch.org
November 3, 2025 at 2:43 PM
A huge, huge problem
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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
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
...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
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Bay Area Teen Uses Drones to Map the Wetlands He Grew Up Loving
“I hope these maps encourage youth to come into this field and try to save their backyard. I want the next generation to be able to enjoy it.”
@kqednews.kqed.org @kqedscience.bsky.social
www.kqed.org/science/1998...
“I hope these maps encourage youth to come into this field and try to save their backyard. I want the next generation to be able to enjoy it.”
@kqednews.kqed.org @kqedscience.bsky.social
www.kqed.org/science/1998...
Bay Area Teen Uses Drones to Map the Wetlands He Grew Up Loving | KQED
A South Bay student uses drone technology to show what’s at stake as rising seas threaten the Bay Area wetlands that act as a natural barrier to flooding.
www.kqed.org
October 30, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Bay Area Teen Uses Drones to Map the Wetlands He Grew Up Loving
“I hope these maps encourage youth to come into this field and try to save their backyard. I want the next generation to be able to enjoy it.”
@kqednews.kqed.org @kqedscience.bsky.social
www.kqed.org/science/1998...
“I hope these maps encourage youth to come into this field and try to save their backyard. I want the next generation to be able to enjoy it.”
@kqednews.kqed.org @kqedscience.bsky.social
www.kqed.org/science/1998...
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Celebrate STEM Day with us on November 8th! 🧬📝
RSVP for our free Zoom event on November 8th! Learn science journalism from Chad Small, a PhD student in Atmospheric and Climate Science and science journalist!
@smallthoughts.bsky.social
#scicomm #sciencejournalism
🔗RSVP: bit.ly/labreports3
RSVP for our free Zoom event on November 8th! Learn science journalism from Chad Small, a PhD student in Atmospheric and Climate Science and science journalist!
@smallthoughts.bsky.social
#scicomm #sciencejournalism
🔗RSVP: bit.ly/labreports3
October 20, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Celebrate STEM Day with us on November 8th! 🧬📝
RSVP for our free Zoom event on November 8th! Learn science journalism from Chad Small, a PhD student in Atmospheric and Climate Science and science journalist!
@smallthoughts.bsky.social
#scicomm #sciencejournalism
🔗RSVP: bit.ly/labreports3
RSVP for our free Zoom event on November 8th! Learn science journalism from Chad Small, a PhD student in Atmospheric and Climate Science and science journalist!
@smallthoughts.bsky.social
#scicomm #sciencejournalism
🔗RSVP: bit.ly/labreports3
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What did I just watch
October 23, 2025 at 4:01 AM
What did I just watch
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We've got to stop behaving as if we're not responsible for one other. Eradicate from your mind expressions like, "I don't owe you anything.""They/she/he doesn't owe you anything." That "owe" is thinking of us in terms of transactions as if our value is only important in terms of profit & loss.
My co-worker came in one day sneezing and coughing talking about, “It’s not COVID”. Okay girl, I still don’t want it!
if you have a cough or cold, scratch throat, beginning to come down with something or getting over something, why don't you where a mask on public transportation? is the idea that if someone gets sick from your droplets that's just fate?
October 19, 2025 at 5:20 PM
We've got to stop behaving as if we're not responsible for one other. Eradicate from your mind expressions like, "I don't owe you anything.""They/she/he doesn't owe you anything." That "owe" is thinking of us in terms of transactions as if our value is only important in terms of profit & loss.
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wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors
“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”
www.404media.co
October 17, 2025 at 1:15 AM
wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
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As we go into No Kings weekend (and with the influx of new followers from x) seems like a good time to resurface this.
It was written in 2020 then focused on George Floyd about the media's antagonistic relationship to protest
It was written in 2020 then focused on George Floyd about the media's antagonistic relationship to protest
It’s time to change the way the media reports on protests. Here are some ideas.
"People kept sharing these videos that were coming up and it was unambiguous what was going on. We weren't looking at a stream of videos of violence erupting or clashes breaking out. We were looking a...
www.niemanlab.org
October 16, 2025 at 10:28 AM
As we go into No Kings weekend (and with the influx of new followers from x) seems like a good time to resurface this.
It was written in 2020 then focused on George Floyd about the media's antagonistic relationship to protest
It was written in 2020 then focused on George Floyd about the media's antagonistic relationship to protest
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David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
October 9, 2025 at 4:42 AM
David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
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If you ever end up recording a final message, ensure you dedicate a good chunk of it to roasting your nemeses, like Jane Goodall did
futurism.com/future-socie...
futurism.com/future-socie...
![In an interview for a new Netflix documentary filmed months before her death, famed British primatologist Jane Goodall called for billionaire and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk to be blasted into space.
“Absolutely, there are people I don’t like,” she told interviewer and TV writer Brad Falchuk, “and I would like to put them on one of Musk’s spaceships and send them all off to the planet he’s sure he’s going to discover.”
When asked if she would like Musk to be on the spacecraft alongside them, she sounded off.
“Oh, absolutely, he’d be the host,” she said. “Along with Musk, it’d be [president Donald] Trump and some of Trump’s real supporters.”
“Put them all on that spaceship and send them off,” she concluded.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:66lbtw2porscqpmair6mir37/bafkreiaykalfcmzzg4tatdoph7mku6ghkwgypjsfc746gprjuba62p774u@jpeg)
October 8, 2025 at 10:19 AM
If you ever end up recording a final message, ensure you dedicate a good chunk of it to roasting your nemeses, like Jane Goodall did
futurism.com/future-socie...
futurism.com/future-socie...
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this one might upset some ppl!!!! tried to be nuanced and balanced, but EJ is always where my heart will be
NEW: for @atmosmag.bsky.social, @yessfun.com takes us inside the fight to roll back the US's landmark environmental law—counterintuitively, to accelerate climate action 🌎🧪
Could Weakening Environmental Law Actually Strengthen Climate Action? | Atmos
Experts are divided over the SPEED Act, which aims to expedite climate action, counterintuitively, by eroding environmental law.
atmos.earth
September 25, 2025 at 3:00 PM
this one might upset some ppl!!!! tried to be nuanced and balanced, but EJ is always where my heart will be
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Don't miss the latest addition to the Uproot Resource Library, "Reporting on Atmospheric Rivers," brought to you by the fantastic @smallthoughts.bsky.social and @rachelreports.bsky.social, members of the Uproot Advisory Board!
uprootproject.org/initiatives/...
uprootproject.org/initiatives/...
uprootproject.org
September 18, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Don't miss the latest addition to the Uproot Resource Library, "Reporting on Atmospheric Rivers," brought to you by the fantastic @smallthoughts.bsky.social and @rachelreports.bsky.social, members of the Uproot Advisory Board!
uprootproject.org/initiatives/...
uprootproject.org/initiatives/...
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"Declines in cooling sulfates combined with increases in greenhouse gas concentrations have increased the intensity and frequency of African heat waves." Uprooter @smallthoughts.bsky.social for @insideclimatenews.org
insideclimatenews.org/news/0609202...
insideclimatenews.org/news/0609202...
Emissions are Sparking Increases in African Heat Waves in Unexpected Ways, New Study Finds - Inside Climate News
Declines in cooling sulfates combined with increases in greenhouse gas concentrations have increased the intensity and frequency of African heat waves. And the temperature spikes may be even more inte...
insideclimatenews.org
September 17, 2025 at 7:36 PM
"Declines in cooling sulfates combined with increases in greenhouse gas concentrations have increased the intensity and frequency of African heat waves." Uprooter @smallthoughts.bsky.social for @insideclimatenews.org
insideclimatenews.org/news/0609202...
insideclimatenews.org/news/0609202...
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Heartbreaking account of what it's like to lose funding for your PhD because of the Trump administration's attitude towards diversity, from my former colleague
@marissa-russo.bsky.social
www.statnews.com/2025/09/05/n...
@marissa-russo.bsky.social
www.statnews.com/2025/09/05/n...
I’m one of the Ph.D. students caught up in the cancelation of ‘diversity’ grants. I’m heartbroken
I’m one of the Ph.D. students caught up in the cancelation of ‘diversity’ grants. I’m heartbroken
www.statnews.com
September 5, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Heartbreaking account of what it's like to lose funding for your PhD because of the Trump administration's attitude towards diversity, from my former colleague
@marissa-russo.bsky.social
www.statnews.com/2025/09/05/n...
@marissa-russo.bsky.social
www.statnews.com/2025/09/05/n...
Declines in cooling sulfates combined with increases in greenhouse gas concentrations have increased the intensity and frequency of African heat waves. And the temperature spikes may be even more intense than has been recorded.
In @insideclimatenews.org
insideclimatenews.org/news/0609202...
In @insideclimatenews.org
insideclimatenews.org/news/0609202...
Emissions are Sparking Increases in African Heat Waves in Unexpected Ways, New Study Finds - Inside Climate News
Declines in cooling sulfates combined with increases in greenhouse gas concentrations have increased the intensity and frequency of African heat waves. And the temperature spikes may be even more inte...
insideclimatenews.org
September 8, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Declines in cooling sulfates combined with increases in greenhouse gas concentrations have increased the intensity and frequency of African heat waves. And the temperature spikes may be even more intense than has been recorded.
In @insideclimatenews.org
insideclimatenews.org/news/0609202...
In @insideclimatenews.org
insideclimatenews.org/news/0609202...
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As we enter the “fuck around and find out” public health era, it’s important to remember, people will be harmed..people will die. All of this is preventable.
Florida Says It Plans to End All Vaccine Mandates www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
Florida Says It Plans to End All Vaccine Mandates www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
Florida Says It Plans to End All Vaccine Mandates
www.nytimes.com
September 3, 2025 at 6:05 PM
As we enter the “fuck around and find out” public health era, it’s important to remember, people will be harmed..people will die. All of this is preventable.
Florida Says It Plans to End All Vaccine Mandates www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
Florida Says It Plans to End All Vaccine Mandates www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
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Climate change is expanding the range of a deadly virus and the fruit bats that spread it. Uprooter @smallthoughts.bsky.social for @insideclimatenews.org
insideclimatenews.org/news/2308202...
insideclimatenews.org/news/2308202...
Climate Change Likely to Expand the Range of an Asian Bat and the Deadly Disease it Carries - Inside Climate News
A vaccine in development may slow the spread of Nipah virus, which kills up to 75 percent of the people it sickens, but reducing the environmental disruptions that bring people, livestock and bats tog...
insideclimatenews.org
September 3, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Climate change is expanding the range of a deadly virus and the fruit bats that spread it. Uprooter @smallthoughts.bsky.social for @insideclimatenews.org
insideclimatenews.org/news/2308202...
insideclimatenews.org/news/2308202...
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"These efforts will be even more essential as the United States abandons its role as global leader in vaccine research and development—all in service of Kennedy’s personal, endless campaign against proven, effective, life-saving vaccines." thebulletin.org/2025/09/rfk-...
RFK Jr.’s endless anti-vax campaign targets the science that could lead to cancer vaccines
Health and Human Services has said that the cancellation of the 22 mRNA research and development projects was specific to their application to respiratory pathogens and does not extend to their use fo...
thebulletin.org
September 2, 2025 at 4:47 PM
"These efforts will be even more essential as the United States abandons its role as global leader in vaccine research and development—all in service of Kennedy’s personal, endless campaign against proven, effective, life-saving vaccines." thebulletin.org/2025/09/rfk-...
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We published a peer-reviewed paper modeling likely shifts in Nipah virus hosts due to climate change in PNAS 2012.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Thanks to @smallthoughts.bsky.social @insideclimatenews.org for pointing out these underappreciated impacts of climate change
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Thanks to @smallthoughts.bsky.social @insideclimatenews.org for pointing out these underappreciated impacts of climate change
August 23, 2025 at 2:21 PM
We published a peer-reviewed paper modeling likely shifts in Nipah virus hosts due to climate change in PNAS 2012.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Thanks to @smallthoughts.bsky.social @insideclimatenews.org for pointing out these underappreciated impacts of climate change
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Thanks to @smallthoughts.bsky.social @insideclimatenews.org for pointing out these underappreciated impacts of climate change
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Climate change will cause new contacts between wildlife, livestock, people, leading to increased risk of zoonoses
“When you disrupt the environment in any way, there’s a strong chance you’re going to increase contact between hosts,” Daszak said.
insideclimatenews.org/news/2308202...
“When you disrupt the environment in any way, there’s a strong chance you’re going to increase contact between hosts,” Daszak said.
insideclimatenews.org/news/2308202...
Climate Change Likely to Expand the Range of an Asian Bat and the Deadly Disease it Carries - Inside Climate News
A vaccine in development may slow the spread of Nipah virus, which kills up to 75 percent of the people it sickens, but reducing the environmental disruptions that bring people, livestock and bats tog...
insideclimatenews.org
August 23, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Climate change will cause new contacts between wildlife, livestock, people, leading to increased risk of zoonoses
“When you disrupt the environment in any way, there’s a strong chance you’re going to increase contact between hosts,” Daszak said.
insideclimatenews.org/news/2308202...
“When you disrupt the environment in any way, there’s a strong chance you’re going to increase contact between hosts,” Daszak said.
insideclimatenews.org/news/2308202...
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Here’s a piece from 2016 about the importance of the NASA earth science missions and what it would mean if the Trump admin managed to shut them down
gizmodo.com/gutting-nasa...
gizmodo.com/gutting-nasa...
Gutting NASA's Earth Science Division Would Send Research Back to the Dark Ages
Norm Nelson is interested in what makes the oceans tick. As a biological oceanographer at UC Santa Barbara, his research draws connections between
gizmodo.com
August 15, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Here’s a piece from 2016 about the importance of the NASA earth science missions and what it would mean if the Trump admin managed to shut them down
gizmodo.com/gutting-nasa...
gizmodo.com/gutting-nasa...
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The thing about this is, a HUUUUUGE amount of what NASA does is earth science. Most of the reason we are able to see Earth and what’s happening here is because of NASA. This would be like blinding us to our own planet.
NASA’s acting chief calls for the end of Earth science at the space agency arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...
NASA’s acting chief calls for the end of Earth science at the space agency
NASA’s charter clearly states the agency should study planet Earth, however.
arstechnica.com
August 15, 2025 at 10:14 PM
The thing about this is, a HUUUUUGE amount of what NASA does is earth science. Most of the reason we are able to see Earth and what’s happening here is because of NASA. This would be like blinding us to our own planet.
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"Private equity is causing the housing crisis" is a very common take that mixes up cause and effect. Single-family homes are an attractive investment vehicle for private equity because there's a shortage of them, not the other way around.
August 10, 2025 at 11:29 PM
"Private equity is causing the housing crisis" is a very common take that mixes up cause and effect. Single-family homes are an attractive investment vehicle for private equity because there's a shortage of them, not the other way around.