Anuradha
@anuradha.bsky.social
Freelance science writer and journalist. I write about climate change and health. Anuradhavaranasi.com
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❄️ "Snow droughts" are increasing in the Himalayas ❄️
Scientists warn that they could have far-reaching impacts on both people & nature
Satellites reveal their frequent occurrence btw 3,000 and 6,000 meters across 11 major river basins in the Hindu Kush Himalayas & a decline in snow cover days:
Scientists warn that they could have far-reaching impacts on both people & nature
Satellites reveal their frequent occurrence btw 3,000 and 6,000 meters across 11 major river basins in the Hindu Kush Himalayas & a decline in snow cover days:
Snow droughts intensify across the Hindu Kush Himalayas
A new study finds the frequent occurrence of snow droughts and their hotspots across 11 major river basins in the Hindu Kush Himalayas.
india.mongabay.com
December 6, 2025 at 1:59 PM
❄️ "Snow droughts" are increasing in the Himalayas ❄️
Scientists warn that they could have far-reaching impacts on both people & nature
Satellites reveal their frequent occurrence btw 3,000 and 6,000 meters across 11 major river basins in the Hindu Kush Himalayas & a decline in snow cover days:
Scientists warn that they could have far-reaching impacts on both people & nature
Satellites reveal their frequent occurrence btw 3,000 and 6,000 meters across 11 major river basins in the Hindu Kush Himalayas & a decline in snow cover days:
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when someone tells me not to use em dashes because AI uses em dashes
November 30, 2025 at 7:48 PM
when someone tells me not to use em dashes because AI uses em dashes
Please don’t feed your dreams into an LLM -
I offer by donation groups, workshops and consultations to help you learn embodied and relational practices to sit contemplatively and creativelyawith your dream life
www.whatashrinkthinks.com/dream-workshop
I offer by donation groups, workshops and consultations to help you learn embodied and relational practices to sit contemplatively and creativelyawith your dream life
www.whatashrinkthinks.com/dream-workshop
Dream Workshop — What A Shrink Thinks
Exploring dreams as a creative, contemplative, and community-building
practice
www.whatashrinkthinks.com
October 28, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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huge: new york’s largest battery project has been canceled.
would’ve stored enough energy to power more than half a million homes.
why’d it die? a protest movement in NYC against battery storage, backed by curtis sliwa & national GOP politicians.
my latest for @heatmap.news #greensky
would’ve stored enough energy to power more than half a million homes.
why’d it die? a protest movement in NYC against battery storage, backed by curtis sliwa & national GOP politicians.
my latest for @heatmap.news #greensky
New York’s Largest Battery Project Has Been Canceled
Fullmark Energy quietly shuttered Swiftsure, a planned 650-megawatt energy storage system on Staten Island.
heatmap.news
October 28, 2025 at 12:58 PM
huge: new york’s largest battery project has been canceled.
would’ve stored enough energy to power more than half a million homes.
why’d it die? a protest movement in NYC against battery storage, backed by curtis sliwa & national GOP politicians.
my latest for @heatmap.news #greensky
would’ve stored enough energy to power more than half a million homes.
why’d it die? a protest movement in NYC against battery storage, backed by curtis sliwa & national GOP politicians.
my latest for @heatmap.news #greensky
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Iceland is becoming no-ice land.
How Icelanders are grieving the loss of 'dead' and melting glaciers
Iceland’s glaciers are disappearing. For locals, it’s a profoundly sad loss.
www.thejournal.ie
October 5, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Iceland is becoming no-ice land.
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Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.
After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵
After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵
October 5, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.
After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵
After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵
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The fact they jumped straight to AI actors modeled after women when, if I’m not mistaken, male actors are a higher labor cost kind of says it all doesn’t it,
Like… it's kind of right there, no?
October 5, 2025 at 12:02 PM
The fact they jumped straight to AI actors modeled after women when, if I’m not mistaken, male actors are a higher labor cost kind of says it all doesn’t it,
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Meat is a blind spot for people who care about climate. When I used to have dinner with my colleague Wally Broecker, the climate scientist who coined the term “global warming”, he would always order a steak.
The climate movement’s biggest weakness
What the climate movement is getting dead wrong.
www.vox.com
October 4, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Meat is a blind spot for people who care about climate. When I used to have dinner with my colleague Wally Broecker, the climate scientist who coined the term “global warming”, he would always order a steak.
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Two recent headlines. Can you spot why this is scary?
October 2, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Two recent headlines. Can you spot why this is scary?
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Sperm-injecting robots.
The first babies conceived with a sperm-injecting robot have been born
Meet the startups trying to engineer a desktop fertility machine.
www.technologyreview.com
October 2, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Sperm-injecting robots.
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"Nobody has tried this before, but with climate change, we have crops that, 10 years ago, we wouldn't have thought would be viable. In 10 years time, rice could be a completely perfect crop for us," Nadine says.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK's first rice crop ripe for picking after hot summer
Paddy fields are thriving in a quiet part of east England and might help feed us in the future.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 2, 2025 at 4:45 PM
"Nobody has tried this before, but with climate change, we have crops that, 10 years ago, we wouldn't have thought would be viable. In 10 years time, rice could be a completely perfect crop for us," Nadine says.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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I don't have a fight in this. But I do think it's interesting that in this moment where she's being called out for being a billionaire who manipulates fans to overconsume "collectibles" and not speaking out on the fascism or Gaza she made an exclusive album deal with Target
My 15 year old daughter, a Swift fan but not, she insists, a Swiftie, said the new album sounds like it was made to be played in Target while people are shopping.
October 3, 2025 at 5:31 PM
I don't have a fight in this. But I do think it's interesting that in this moment where she's being called out for being a billionaire who manipulates fans to overconsume "collectibles" and not speaking out on the fascism or Gaza she made an exclusive album deal with Target
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NEW INVESTIGATION
California predicts data centers will consume as much power as adding another LA to grid by 2030
A utility anticipates additional emissions equal to 21 gas plants
Some environmentalists see reducing gas power as “a lot less likely” due to AI capitalandmain.com/the-insatiab...
California predicts data centers will consume as much power as adding another LA to grid by 2030
A utility anticipates additional emissions equal to 21 gas plants
Some environmentalists see reducing gas power as “a lot less likely” due to AI capitalandmain.com/the-insatiab...
The Insatiable Energy Demands of Data Centers Could Increase Fossil Fuel Emissions in California
By 2030, the centers could consume the equivalent of adding another city the size of L.A. to the state’s power grid.
capitalandmain.com
October 2, 2025 at 3:25 PM
NEW INVESTIGATION
California predicts data centers will consume as much power as adding another LA to grid by 2030
A utility anticipates additional emissions equal to 21 gas plants
Some environmentalists see reducing gas power as “a lot less likely” due to AI capitalandmain.com/the-insatiab...
California predicts data centers will consume as much power as adding another LA to grid by 2030
A utility anticipates additional emissions equal to 21 gas plants
Some environmentalists see reducing gas power as “a lot less likely” due to AI capitalandmain.com/the-insatiab...
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Incredible story of a solar revolution.☀️🔌💡
Pakistan’s solar boom wasn’t planned — it was necessary.
Rising tariffs + unreliable grid = homes & businesses turning to rooftop solar.
Now, a full-blown people-led energy revolution is underway.
@jigarshahdc.bsky.social breaks it down
🔗 bit.ly/476wYHC
#Solar #EnergyAccess #Pakistan
Rising tariffs + unreliable grid = homes & businesses turning to rooftop solar.
Now, a full-blown people-led energy revolution is underway.
@jigarshahdc.bsky.social breaks it down
🔗 bit.ly/476wYHC
#Solar #EnergyAccess #Pakistan
October 3, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Incredible story of a solar revolution.☀️🔌💡
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Fiction writers constructing their characters from bits and pieces of everyone they’ve ever met
October 3, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Fiction writers constructing their characters from bits and pieces of everyone they’ve ever met
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Another real head-exploding moment in this was our conversation around "news influencers" and how *not* media literate Gen Z is in terms of understanding the actual sources of information and how it gets shaped.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vghv...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vghv...
Are News Influencers a Climate Problem?
YouTube video by Drilled
www.youtube.com
October 3, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Another real head-exploding moment in this was our conversation around "news influencers" and how *not* media literate Gen Z is in terms of understanding the actual sources of information and how it gets shaped.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vghv...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vghv...
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Lead pollution persists in the 21st Century and could get worse - review paper
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
October 1, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Lead pollution persists in the 21st Century and could get worse - review paper
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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Call for pitches: we're assigning for @thelocal.to's winter issue. Going back to our roots with a healthcare issue, and specifically interested in stories about privatization and places where money and health collide. Features, essays, first-person, etc, starting at 0.75 cents/word. nick@thelocal.to
September 25, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Call for pitches: we're assigning for @thelocal.to's winter issue. Going back to our roots with a healthcare issue, and specifically interested in stories about privatization and places where money and health collide. Features, essays, first-person, etc, starting at 0.75 cents/word. nick@thelocal.to
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In general I think it's hard to combat scientific misinformation when some of the best research is locked behind an academic paywall, while lots of nonsense gets published free for everyone to read in predatory journals.
September 28, 2025 at 5:25 PM
In general I think it's hard to combat scientific misinformation when some of the best research is locked behind an academic paywall, while lots of nonsense gets published free for everyone to read in predatory journals.
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A theory about why humans have such big brains is because we learned to cook food and cooking unlocks calories. Gorillas spend NINE hours a day eating
When Fire Met Food, The Brains Of Early Humans Grew Bigger
Because we had better food, our brains grew bigger than those of our primate cousins, scientists say. Early humans cooked, which makes meat and veggies more digestible and nutrients more available to ...
www.npr.org
September 27, 2025 at 3:36 PM
A theory about why humans have such big brains is because we learned to cook food and cooking unlocks calories. Gorillas spend NINE hours a day eating
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Every basic scientist & PhD program director should be watching how cell culture and rodent models of Tylenol exposure are being used by motivated parties (e.g. it depletes your glutathione! Science proves it PMID...) to sell a narrative and sow confusion right now.
September 26, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Every basic scientist & PhD program director should be watching how cell culture and rodent models of Tylenol exposure are being used by motivated parties (e.g. it depletes your glutathione! Science proves it PMID...) to sell a narrative and sow confusion right now.
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China's S1500, the world's largest flying wind turbine, completed its first flight in Xinjiang. This 60m airborne power plant has 12 turbines producing megawatt-scale electricity, cuts material use by 40%, energy costs by 30%, and can be deployed in hours for remote, disaster, or island zones.
September 27, 2025 at 7:24 AM
China's S1500, the world's largest flying wind turbine, completed its first flight in Xinjiang. This 60m airborne power plant has 12 turbines producing megawatt-scale electricity, cuts material use by 40%, energy costs by 30%, and can be deployed in hours for remote, disaster, or island zones.
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I had been asked by a startup to sell such flying wind turbines like 10 years ago. They were underfunded.
All the more I'm happy to see the concept survived and became quite sophisticated. I wish best of success for all stakeholders!
We need to think and act out of the box.
All the more I'm happy to see the concept survived and became quite sophisticated. I wish best of success for all stakeholders!
We need to think and act out of the box.
China's S1500, the world's largest flying wind turbine, completed its first flight in Xinjiang. This 60m airborne power plant has 12 turbines producing megawatt-scale electricity, cuts material use by 40%, energy costs by 30%, and can be deployed in hours for remote, disaster, or island zones.
September 27, 2025 at 7:53 AM
I had been asked by a startup to sell such flying wind turbines like 10 years ago. They were underfunded.
All the more I'm happy to see the concept survived and became quite sophisticated. I wish best of success for all stakeholders!
We need to think and act out of the box.
All the more I'm happy to see the concept survived and became quite sophisticated. I wish best of success for all stakeholders!
We need to think and act out of the box.
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Psychiatry and psychology often serve as a loudspeaker that amplifies the message and ideology of corporate capitalism, stating that emotion regulation is entirely an individual's responsibility.
Here is the deal:
Capitalism wants you to manage your feelings, suppress them during the work day - and then we feel dysregulated and unsettled (or worse) when they return to us at force at night - and then we try to escape them.
There are other ways to consider our emotional response
Capitalism wants you to manage your feelings, suppress them during the work day - and then we feel dysregulated and unsettled (or worse) when they return to us at force at night - and then we try to escape them.
There are other ways to consider our emotional response
This starts next week - plenty of seats open - including 3 free seats.
From a past participant:
“Martha offers a little toolbox: ways to notice messages from our emotions that we’ve been habitually overlooking, and strategies for how to listen to those messages...”
From a past participant:
“Martha offers a little toolbox: ways to notice messages from our emotions that we’ve been habitually overlooking, and strategies for how to listen to those messages...”
September 27, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Psychiatry and psychology often serve as a loudspeaker that amplifies the message and ideology of corporate capitalism, stating that emotion regulation is entirely an individual's responsibility.
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Our new research looks at solar deconstruction networks. We advance the concept of ulterior ruination—a determined yet deferred technological breakdown for the present mitigation of the climate crisis with intentionally concealed socioecological dynamics to achieve particular political results. ☀️🔌💡♻️
New paper! On the precarious labor at the end of the solar commodity chain, and the production of value from solar waste in India.
Shards of light: Ruination, pollution, and the lived experience of solar waste in India.
☀️🔌💡 authors.elsevier.com/c/1lpUo7tZ6a...
Shards of light: Ruination, pollution, and the lived experience of solar waste in India.
☀️🔌💡 authors.elsevier.com/c/1lpUo7tZ6a...
September 27, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Our new research looks at solar deconstruction networks. We advance the concept of ulterior ruination—a determined yet deferred technological breakdown for the present mitigation of the climate crisis with intentionally concealed socioecological dynamics to achieve particular political results. ☀️🔌💡♻️