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Peter Thorne
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Climate scientist, director ICARUS Climate Research Centre, Maynooth University, Ireland, author IPCC AR6, member Ireland's climate change advisory council, Chair GCOS AOPC. www.peter-thorne.net

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Peter William Thorne is a climatologist and professor of physical geography in the Department of Geography, Maynooth University.

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 2h
"tell me we didn't just fire a dozen $500,000 missiles at a $200 camel"

"sir, no evidence of any camel present, sir!"

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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 4h
Make a Bond movie academic:

Moonraker: How raking the moon won't stop forest fires
kejames.bsky.social Karen James @kejames.bsky.social · 4h
Make a Bond movie academic

A View to a Kill: Evolutionary trade-offs in owl sclerotic ring development
nuclearanthro.bsky.social 🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 6h
Make a Bond movie academic

Goldfinger: Bitcoin & the Semiotics of Digital Goldbugs

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 16h
On Christmas Day, the Trump regime informed Americans, via a DHS tweet, that one only deserves the title of citizen of this nation—the designation "American"—if you accept Jesus of Nazareth as your Lord and Savior, i.e. are Christian.

We Jews have heard this canary sing before.

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Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 1d
This is an amazing science story on so many levels. I’m not sure where I net out on Dr. Buck’s approach, but I’d love to have a beer with him.
He made beer that’s also a vaccine. Now controversy is brewing
An NIH scientist’s maverick approach reveals legal, ethical, moral, scientific and social challenges to developing potentially life-saving vaccines.
www.sciencenews.org

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Ruth Mottram @ruthmottram.bsky.social · 1d
Back at Basen*

Working out in the field in Dronning Maud Land, the first results from LISA and finally "home" for Christmas..
Back at Basen*
Working out in the field in Dronning Maud Land, the first results from LISA and finally "home" for Christmas..
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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 2d
“Like prime, but with human beings”
A box car used in the holocaust to transport human beings to the camps.

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Ryan Katz-Rosene, PhD @ryankatzrosene.bsky.social · 2d
New paper just dropped about sticks and carrots in climate policy: “Policy carrots alone do not dramatically reduce future emissions. Only with policy sticks are there unambiguous signals to substantially shrink the size of incumbent fossil fuel industries.”

Reposted by Scott C. Doney, Peter Thorne, Kevin J. Anchukaitis , and 1 more

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St Andrews Earth & Environmental Sciences @earthscista.bsky.social · 3d
📣 We seek to appoint a Chair (with rank of professor) within the School of Earth & Environmental Sciences. The successful candidate will be an outstanding scholar of international standing in the field.

🗓 Closing Date: 23 March 2026

Full details: www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/...
Chair in Earth Sciences - AC2672
Chair in Earth Sciences - AC2672, Earth and Environmental Sciences Salary: Grade 9/Negotiable Start Date: September 2026 , <p style="margin-right: 22.7pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: bl...
www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 3d
My core EV hot take is that car manufacturers are incentivised to sell deadly and oversized vehicles because it makes them more $$, but consumers hate and can't afford them

The delusions of capitalism mean car companies will always fail. Active and public transport become vital, core pathways then

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 3d
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 3d
!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social:

is.gd/paU8Ko

(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)

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Fintan Kelly @fintankelly.bsky.social · 4d
Irish nature is in crisis. We know what needs to be done & we know we can succeed. We only need the political leadership to deliver an ambitious Nature Restoration Plan and the funding to make it happen.
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
Habitats report a stark contrast to nitrates decision
Biodiversity collapse is not a lost cause, but Government failure to prioritise it is devastating for all those working on nature restoration
www.irishexaminer.com

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Robert McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 4d
Radio engineer, amateur astronomer, and Chicagoan Grote Reber was born #OTD in 1911.

After reading about Karl Jansky’s accidental discovery of galactic radio emissions, he built a 9m radio telescope *in his back yard* and carried out the first radio survey of the sky. 🧪 ⚛️ 🔭 📡

Image: NRAO
A photo of George Reber at the age of 25 or 26. He has short, dark hair, and he is wearing a white button down shirt with tie and sport coat. He is looking at the camera, and appears slightly surprised.

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Bob Kopp @bobkopp.net · 4d
I look forward to the legally required, transparent peer review process required by the US Global Change Research Act and the Information Quality Act. I always thought they would try to do a NCA with Judith Curry, five old men and a LLM.
It’s the gold standard of US climate research. Contrarians could write the next one.
Researchers who have downplayed the threat of global warming have been asked to author the next National Climate Assessment.
www.eenews.net

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Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 4d
🚨Canal boat in sinkhole 🚨 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Major incident declared over Shropshire canal 'sinkhole'
A multi-agency response is under way at the scene in Whitchurch, with the public asked to stay away.
www.bbc.co.uk

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Irish Independent @independent.ie · 4d
Aristocrat’s lawsuit over hunting rights holds up development of €100m solar farm www.independent.ie/irish-news/c...

Reposted by Peter Thorne, Juan Cole, Andy Reisinger

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 5d
This isn't a debate about policy design or differing paths to the same goal

One is a plan to allow more emissions (and therefore, more harm / death), and one is a plan to *at least try* to reduce that harm.

The 'debate' is about whether we should let fossil fuels kill people, or try to stop that
a graphic showing the slower emissions reductions cause more greenhouse gas emissions over time

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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social · 5d
I feel attacked by all the “nobody should talk/do anything about climate change” discourse because a) I wrote a book about climate change and b) I personally live on Earth

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Stiles @lakesstiles.bsky.social · 5d
Yet more solstice lenticular action.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 5d
suspect a big reason why many academics and others who work in areas where getting facts RIGHT is key are disinterested in using LLMs for research:

they’ve tried it, they keep noticing major errors in output, and they conclude that having to verify all that doesn’t actually save them time.

Reposted by Peter Thorne, Dana R. Fisher

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Paasha Mahdavi @paashamahdavi.com · 5d
Fox News (!!) poll showing Climate Change is a top 10 concern for voters — slightly more than illegal immigration.

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Poll graphic from Fox News showing top ten concerns among voters, with 58% concerned about climate change and 57% concerned about illegal immigration.

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Peter Thorne @peterthorne.bsky.social · 5d
www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p... @codohertynews.bsky.social telling some hard home truths here with a guest quote from @clairebergin.bsky.social and some of the usual nonsense from me.
The climate crisis in 2025: When scientific and political realities diverged
‘Climate adaptation’ became the new buzzwords but there was much evidence of business as usual
www.irishtimes.com

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Peter Thorne @peterthorne.bsky.social · 5d
I thought you were bringng out your high school latin

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Peter Thorne @peterthorne.bsky.social · 5d
I know just the man @jonworth.eu ...

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 5d
One day something will happen — a wedding, a graduation, a job promotion, Jake Paul getting knocked out, Andrew Tate getting knocked out the next day — and you’ll want the right outfit to celebrate. Buy that special outfit now, so you’re ready when that next unexpected moment arrives.

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Dr. Katy Croff Bell @katycroffbell.bsky.social · 5d
NOAA has started terminating grants to UCAR under the UCAR/NOAA Climate Adaptation and Mitigation Program (CAMP).

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Peter Thorne @peterthorne.bsky.social · 6d
RIP my hallway

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Paul Kirkley @paulkirkley.bsky.social · 6d
My 14-yo-son has recreated the climax of Back to the Future in gingerbread and I thought you should know.

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Dr. Nneka D. Dennie @nneka.bsky.social · 6d
yall this is so, so funny to me 😂
Screenshot of a post that has a screenshot of an article Nathan Kalman-Lamb I'm sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals. RollingStone SUBSCRIBE BAD EDUCATION AI IS INVENTING ACADEMIC PAPERS THAT DON'T EXIST - AND THEY'RE BEING CITED IN REAL JOURNALS The proliferation of references to fake articles threatens to undermine the legitimacy of institutional research across the board Screenshot of objectively hilarious exchange in response to OP Brandon Paddock @brandonlive.com • 1h Have you considered that perhaps you're not entirely objective when it comes to this subject? Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.s... • 18m Do you know that your bio is visible to everyone? Brandon Paddock @brandonlive.com What does that have to do with anything? Screenshot of Brandon Pinnock's bio and the first visible post, where the bastion of objectivity self-identifies as an architect for AI in Word at Microsoft Brandon Paddock @brandonlive.com 582 followers 247 following 1.3K posts Architect for Al in Word at Microsoft. Previous: ~14 years working on Windows, with a stint as small startup CTO in the middle. I also made Tweetium (may it rest in peace). brandonpaddock.substack.com Posts Replies Media Videos First post says: Every time I read about OpenAl saying the 5.1 and 5.2 chat models (the ones they basically say not to use) can do "light reasoning" I think of this: Gif with man in orange prison jumpsuit saying There's a good chance that I... that ! have committed some, umm, light... treason.

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European Geosciences Union (EGU) @egu.eu · 6d
Do you hold an EU or Swiss passport and speak English fluently? Your help will be needed at #EGU26!

Our conference provider and partner Copernicus is looking for conference assistants.

👉 Apply here by 5 January 2026: egu.eu/4DNZDO

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