David Jen
@djen.bsky.social
Freelance science journalist. Energy, water and local government. Plus as much photography and guitar as I can stuff into the cracks. Tips/inquiries: public@davidjen.com.
Pleasanton, CA | davidjen.com
Pleasanton, CA | davidjen.com
"The (Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat) is in the quest of kind of opening the skyscraper club to many other people," said Javier Quintana de Uña.
Will tall building boom continue? Mixed uses, infrastructure hold keys
The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat’s vertical urbanism index highlights correlations between livability, population density, and skyscraper count.
www.asce.org
March 12, 2025 at 2:54 PM
"The (Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat) is in the quest of kind of opening the skyscraper club to many other people," said Javier Quintana de Uña.
"From 1965 to 1995, the typical adult gained six hours a week in leisure time. They could have devoted that time—300 hours a year!—to community service, or pickup basketball, or reading, or knitting, or all four. Instead, they funneled almost all of this extra time into watching more TV." :(
The Anti-Social Century
Americans are now spending more time alone than ever. It’s changing our personalities, our politics, and even our relationship to reality.
www.theatlantic.com
February 19, 2025 at 12:37 AM
"From 1965 to 1995, the typical adult gained six hours a week in leisure time. They could have devoted that time—300 hours a year!—to community service, or pickup basketball, or reading, or knitting, or all four. Instead, they funneled almost all of this extra time into watching more TV." :(
If you shoot for the moon but land on the stars, maybe orbital mechanics is not your thing.
January 29, 2025 at 4:18 PM
If you shoot for the moon but land on the stars, maybe orbital mechanics is not your thing.
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Those little tête-à-têtes with #ChatGPT sure take a lot of #power and #water. What can we do to make data centers more efficient?
My latest for Civil Engineering Source:
My latest for Civil Engineering Source:
As AI, crypto expand, planners aim to make data centers more efficient
Jumps in data center demand for resources, driven by artificial intelligence and cryptocurrency, have companies like Amazon, Google, and Meta weighing changes.
www.asce.org
January 27, 2025 at 5:16 PM
AI offers speed improvements that can't be ignored in the #architecture, #engineering and #construction industries. What are firms doing to set guardrails for the technology?
My latest for Civil Engineering Source:
My latest for Civil Engineering Source:
Artificial intelligence supervision needed to reap technology’s benefits
Architecture, engineering, and construction companies Thornton Tomasetti, Engineers Rising, and Kimley-Horn weigh in on the future of artificial intelligence.
www.asce.org
December 26, 2024 at 5:57 PM
AI offers speed improvements that can't be ignored in the #architecture, #engineering and #construction industries. What are firms doing to set guardrails for the technology?
My latest for Civil Engineering Source:
My latest for Civil Engineering Source:
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Please welcome @agatastaniewicz.bsky.social, the scientist who broke Twitter (when it was still Twitter) with the hashtag #FieldworkFail by telling the story of how she glued herself to a crocodile.
🐊 🌍
🧪 #academicsky
fieldworkfail.com/en/
🐊 🌍
🧪 #academicsky
fieldworkfail.com/en/
November 29, 2024 at 5:34 PM
Please welcome @agatastaniewicz.bsky.social, the scientist who broke Twitter (when it was still Twitter) with the hashtag #FieldworkFail by telling the story of how she glued herself to a crocodile.
🐊 🌍
🧪 #academicsky
fieldworkfail.com/en/
🐊 🌍
🧪 #academicsky
fieldworkfail.com/en/
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Today I'm thankful for niblings, delicious apples, and people who support targets of right-wing harassment campaigns! www.scientificamerican.com/article/appl...
Apples Have Never Tasted So Delicious. Here’s Why
Apple experts divide time into “before Honeycrisp” and “after Honeycrisp,” and apples have never tasted so good
www.scientificamerican.com
November 28, 2024 at 2:40 PM
Today I'm thankful for niblings, delicious apples, and people who support targets of right-wing harassment campaigns! www.scientificamerican.com/article/appl...
My first accepted story pitch was about the history of turkeys in my part of California. The writing leaves something to be desired, but it was published.
Happy #Thanksgiving!
Happy #Thanksgiving!
Experts Weigh in on Our Neighbors, the Wild Turkeys
They will soon land on our dining room tables, but for many in the Tri-Valley, turkeys have been on our minds all year.
www.independentnews.com
November 28, 2024 at 4:01 PM
My first accepted story pitch was about the history of turkeys in my part of California. The writing leaves something to be desired, but it was published.
Happy #Thanksgiving!
Happy #Thanksgiving!
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having exactly (1) day out of the year where every amateur chef in America attempts to cook a giant bird and not fuck it up is, honestly, a wonderful and hilarious tradition
November 27, 2024 at 3:01 PM
having exactly (1) day out of the year where every amateur chef in America attempts to cook a giant bird and not fuck it up is, honestly, a wonderful and hilarious tradition
The bell in Polar Express isn't magic, it just rings above 16 kHz. Protect your hearing, kids.
November 24, 2024 at 6:12 AM
The bell in Polar Express isn't magic, it just rings above 16 kHz. Protect your hearing, kids.
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My first ever viral post on Bluesky is somehow making the rounds again. And yes, this is still my favourite fact about Iceland.
My favourite fact about Iceland is that we have many, many crime writers but only one forensic pathologist, and he was so busy answering all of their questions that he decided to have a small seminar for writers to get some peace.
It immediately sold out so he had another one that also sold out.
It immediately sold out so he had another one that also sold out.
November 22, 2024 at 10:06 AM
My first ever viral post on Bluesky is somehow making the rounds again. And yes, this is still my favourite fact about Iceland.
There's a name for it?? 😁
Petrichor is the fragrance of rain on dry ground, a mixture of plant oils and microbial chemicals lifted from the soil by rain. Humans have a high acuity for petrichor, perhaps an evolved response to find water in dry times. Here, at my Borneo and Kentucky homes, petrichor sweetens the air.
November 22, 2024 at 2:56 PM
There's a name for it?? 😁
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Moonie McMoonface?
Canada wants your help to name its 1st moon rover
Canada will soon roll a rover onto the moon, and you can help name the pioneering machine.
www.space.com
November 22, 2024 at 1:10 AM
Moonie McMoonface?
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ALL THE WORK ACROSS ALL TIME AND SPACE
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October 10, 2024 at 3:34 PM
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ALL THE WORK ACROSS ALL TIME AND SPACE
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The title of world's most powerful #supercomputer returned to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory this week, with the El Capitan system capable of 1.742 exaflops/sec. The distinction also marks the first time the number of #AMD GPU cores overtook #Nvidia cores on the top 500 list.
#LLNL
#LLNL
LLNL Supercomputer Confirmed as World’s Most Powerful
The El Capitan supercomputer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) was verified as the most powerful in the world on Monday, providing the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) a ...
www.independentnews.com
November 21, 2024 at 4:04 PM
The title of world's most powerful #supercomputer returned to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory this week, with the El Capitan system capable of 1.742 exaflops/sec. The distinction also marks the first time the number of #AMD GPU cores overtook #Nvidia cores on the top 500 list.
#LLNL
#LLNL
Holy crap, the words are not coming out today. Like pulling anvils from the bottom of the ocean. #writinglife
November 20, 2024 at 8:29 PM
Holy crap, the words are not coming out today. Like pulling anvils from the bottom of the ocean. #writinglife
What a story it would be if Musk sold X to buy Bluesky, and then we all moved back to Twitter.
November 19, 2024 at 6:58 PM
What a story it would be if Musk sold X to buy Bluesky, and then we all moved back to Twitter.
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Trump Locks Bathroom Door So Elon Musk Can’t Follow Him In
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theonion.com/trump-locks-...
November 19, 2024 at 4:56 PM
Trump Locks Bathroom Door So Elon Musk Can’t Follow Him In
theonion.com/trump-locks-...
theonion.com/trump-locks-...
Are there any #linguists in my followers up for helping me with a story idea?
November 19, 2024 at 5:02 PM
Are there any #linguists in my followers up for helping me with a story idea?
Things I didn't understand when first watching Back to the Future at age 9:
- DeLoreans were out of production
- Christopher Lloyd was only 46 during filming
- DeLoreans were out of production
- Christopher Lloyd was only 46 during filming
November 19, 2024 at 4:29 PM
Things I didn't understand when first watching Back to the Future at age 9:
- DeLoreans were out of production
- Christopher Lloyd was only 46 during filming
- DeLoreans were out of production
- Christopher Lloyd was only 46 during filming
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The United States now has:
• 45,020 reporters
• 275,550 public relations specialists
For every reporter, there are now six PR people.
(data via U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics)
• 45,020 reporters
• 275,550 public relations specialists
For every reporter, there are now six PR people.
(data via U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics)
November 18, 2024 at 5:10 PM
The United States now has:
• 45,020 reporters
• 275,550 public relations specialists
For every reporter, there are now six PR people.
(data via U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics)
• 45,020 reporters
• 275,550 public relations specialists
For every reporter, there are now six PR people.
(data via U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics)
Hello bsky! My intro: I'm a freelance journalist focusing on the sci/eng bringing us to net zero (wave power? bioconcrete? yay!), although I've been known to nerd out on anything science related. I'm also a former managing editor of a local newspaper and a former Silicon Valley software engineer.
November 18, 2024 at 7:07 PM
Hello bsky! My intro: I'm a freelance journalist focusing on the sci/eng bringing us to net zero (wave power? bioconcrete? yay!), although I've been known to nerd out on anything science related. I'm also a former managing editor of a local newspaper and a former Silicon Valley software engineer.
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Request to beef up 2FA / auth options for all the journalists joining this app @jay.bsky.team -- and to push up encrypted DMs. I sense these things will be important over the next four years!
November 13, 2024 at 4:00 PM
Request to beef up 2FA / auth options for all the journalists joining this app @jay.bsky.team -- and to push up encrypted DMs. I sense these things will be important over the next four years!