Josh Halpern trading as
@elirabett.bsky.social
Chemical physics, climate change, blogger, deep into open teaching resources. Former bunny (pronouns Thou/Thee)
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PSA for people with NIH grant periods starting January 1st (including most NIGMS MIRAs): your RPPR is due Saturday, but they haven’t sent out the usual automated reminders, presumably due to the shutdown
November 11, 2025 at 1:20 AM
PSA for people with NIH grant periods starting January 1st (including most NIGMS MIRAs): your RPPR is due Saturday, but they haven’t sent out the usual automated reminders, presumably due to the shutdown
Eli's new pronouns Thou/Thee, it's time to bring the second person back into the name game. Friendlier too.
November 11, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Eli's new pronouns Thou/Thee, it's time to bring the second person back into the name game. Friendlier too.
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CUNY is waiving its application fee from Nov. 10-21 for New York State high school seniors on pace to graduate next year. You can apply to up to six of our colleges with one application! Go to cuny.edu/apply.
November 10, 2025 at 6:00 PM
CUNY is waiving its application fee from Nov. 10-21 for New York State high school seniors on pace to graduate next year. You can apply to up to six of our colleges with one application! Go to cuny.edu/apply.
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424.54 parts per million (ppm) CO2 in air 08-Nov-2025
keelingcurve.ucsd.edu
keelingcurve.ucsd.edu
The Keeling Curve
The Keeling Curve is a daily record of global atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration maintained by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego.
keelingcurve.ucsd.edu
November 9, 2025 at 6:40 PM
424.54 parts per million (ppm) CO2 in air 08-Nov-2025
keelingcurve.ucsd.edu
keelingcurve.ucsd.edu
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I wonder if any of the contestants is going to try a vegetarian version in this championship.... #gastronomy
Dans les coulisses du premier championnat de France de pâté croûte
Mercredi 5 novembre, à Paris, s’est déroulé la toute première édition du championnat de France de pâté croûte. « Le Point » faisait partie du jury. On déguste.
www.lepoint.fr
November 9, 2025 at 6:49 AM
I wonder if any of the contestants is going to try a vegetarian version in this championship.... #gastronomy
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It's sad to see that the Trump regime has - for now - succeeded in bringing down the @noaa website reporting on atmospheric CO2 at Mauna Loa since 1958. Now via the government shutdown, but it was already under attack by selling its building and scrapping jobs too.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/c...
November 9, 2025 at 7:09 AM
It's sad to see that the Trump regime has - for now - succeeded in bringing down the @noaa website reporting on atmospheric CO2 at Mauna Loa since 1958. Now via the government shutdown, but it was already under attack by selling its building and scrapping jobs too.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/c...
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Multiple Democratic-run states got full Nov #SNAP benefits out the door before #SCOTUS paused.
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
Is it too much to ask that these payments went out with "Brought to by your Democratic Governor, X" (such as #PA @governor.pa.gov & #WI @govevers.wisconsin.gov )?
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
Is it too much to ask that these payments went out with "Brought to by your Democratic Governor, X" (such as #PA @governor.pa.gov & #WI @govevers.wisconsin.gov )?
Supreme Court issues emergency order to block full SNAP food aid payments
The Supreme Court on Friday granted the Trump administration’s emergency appeal to temporarily block a court order to fully fund SNAP food aid payments amid the government shutdown, even though reside...
www.dailykos.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Multiple Democratic-run states got full Nov #SNAP benefits out the door before #SCOTUS paused.
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
Is it too much to ask that these payments went out with "Brought to by your Democratic Governor, X" (such as #PA @governor.pa.gov & #WI @govevers.wisconsin.gov )?
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
Is it too much to ask that these payments went out with "Brought to by your Democratic Governor, X" (such as #PA @governor.pa.gov & #WI @govevers.wisconsin.gov )?
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Exactly! Which makes the real climate shift way scarier. Like shown by the data from svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5452/
November 7, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Exactly! Which makes the real climate shift way scarier. Like shown by the data from svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5452/
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It’s truly a loss today. First time since 1948, the government didn’t collect information on unemployment. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6isk...
Government Shutdown Delays US Jobs Data for Second Month
YouTube video by Bloomberg Podcasts
www.youtube.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:31 PM
It’s truly a loss today. First time since 1948, the government didn’t collect information on unemployment. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6isk...
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These are crimes against humanity. None of us is capable of truly internalizing suffering at this scale. Elon Musk and many other members of the Trump Administration should be put on trial at The Hague.
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 2:44 AM
These are crimes against humanity. None of us is capable of truly internalizing suffering at this scale. Elon Musk and many other members of the Trump Administration should be put on trial at The Hague.
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It's really cool that some of the original sit-inners were present for the unveiling of this memorial.
www.oklahoman.com/picture-gall...
www.oklahoman.com/picture-gall...
November 7, 2025 at 2:47 AM
It's really cool that some of the original sit-inners were present for the unveiling of this memorial.
www.oklahoman.com/picture-gall...
www.oklahoman.com/picture-gall...
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Oh, this /rules/.
It's really cool that some of the original sit-inners were present for the unveiling of this memorial.
www.oklahoman.com/picture-gall...
www.oklahoman.com/picture-gall...
November 7, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Oh, this /rules/.
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Dana Nuccitelli (@dananuccitelli.bsky.social) debunks nineteen climate myths propagated by "two octogenarian fringe climate contrarians" on Joe Rogan's podcast.
Debunking Joe Rogan, Dick Lindzen, and Will Happer
Joe Rogan has one of the most popular podcasts on the Spotify and Apple Podcasts platforms, and a combined 50 million followers on YouTube, Spotify, and Instagram. And like nearly all of the most popu...
skepticalscience.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Dana Nuccitelli (@dananuccitelli.bsky.social) debunks nineteen climate myths propagated by "two octogenarian fringe climate contrarians" on Joe Rogan's podcast.
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The Trump regime is East Winging the Goddard Space Flight Center, home to the 10,000 scientists and engineers in NASA science and engineering directorates.
BREAKING: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center is illegally closing 13 campus buildings (including ~100 laboratories).
Report coming from GESTA, the Goddard employee union
Report coming from GESTA, the Goddard employee union
November 4, 2025 at 10:44 PM
The Trump regime is East Winging the Goddard Space Flight Center, home to the 10,000 scientists and engineers in NASA science and engineering directorates.
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One side of this ivory "memento mori" features a human face crawling with worms and insects; the other side shows a skull - the flesh eaten away. Date unknown.
This unusual object is from the Wellcome Collection in London.
This unusual object is from the Wellcome Collection in London.
November 5, 2025 at 10:05 AM
One side of this ivory "memento mori" features a human face crawling with worms and insects; the other side shows a skull - the flesh eaten away. Date unknown.
This unusual object is from the Wellcome Collection in London.
This unusual object is from the Wellcome Collection in London.
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Imagine splitting open a rock and seeing this.
A paper in Scientific Reports presents the origins of vivid colours within the gemstone ammolite — a rare type of brightly coloured fossilised ammonite shell. go.nature.com/48OT5DX #Paleosky ⚒️ 🧪
November 5, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Imagine splitting open a rock and seeing this.
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"If you say the science isn't real & the technology doesn't exist, then when people begin to feel the consequences of #climate change... if you take the science away, you're taking away the only hope that we have for any kind of resolution to this" - Prof. @timothysnyder.bsky.social
Dr. Timothy Snyder: Black Earth, The Holocaust as History and Warning
YouTube video by Nuerodiversity Human Rights
youtu.be
November 5, 2025 at 3:02 AM
"If you say the science isn't real & the technology doesn't exist, then when people begin to feel the consequences of #climate change... if you take the science away, you're taking away the only hope that we have for any kind of resolution to this" - Prof. @timothysnyder.bsky.social
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press conf in old city hall station when citylore.org/sight-the-ol...
SIGHT: The old City Hall subway station - City Lore
Many New Yorkers know that if you stay on the downtown 6 train past the last stop, Brooklyn Bridge–City Hall, which you are not really supposed to do, you can
citylore.org
November 5, 2025 at 2:57 AM
press conf in old city hall station when citylore.org/sight-the-ol...
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The new UNEP report is out with the latest estimates of 2100 warming outcomes under current policies, NDCs, and net-zero targets. Here is how it compares to both the IPCC scenarios and other estimates (CAT and IEA, who will release their own updates soon!).
November 4, 2025 at 6:05 PM
The new UNEP report is out with the latest estimates of 2100 warming outcomes under current policies, NDCs, and net-zero targets. Here is how it compares to both the IPCC scenarios and other estimates (CAT and IEA, who will release their own updates soon!).
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I get asked a lot about how climate change denial in USA affected or was exported to the rest of the world. Read this:
www.desmog.com/2025/11/03/a...
www.desmog.com/2025/11/03/a...
‘A Pretty Ugly History’: How Exxon Exported Climate Denial to the Global South
With Brazil about to host COP30, DeSmog has obtained copies of checks Exxon mailed to the right-wing Atlas Network in the 1990s to turn Latin America against climate treaties.
www.desmog.com
November 4, 2025 at 6:51 PM
I get asked a lot about how climate change denial in USA affected or was exported to the rest of the world. Read this:
www.desmog.com/2025/11/03/a...
www.desmog.com/2025/11/03/a...
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The duty to keep the memories of the World War II generation alive will pass solely to us soon. The work of fighting fascism may never finish.
“Selma van de Perre, a valiant Jewish secretary who during World War II covertly transported suitcases bulging with cash, seditious newsletters, identity cards and ration books to Dutch resistance agents, even penetrating Nazi headquarters in Paris, died on Oct. 20 in London. She was 103.”
Selma van de Perre, Dutch Jew Who Resisted Nazis, Dies at 103
www.nytimes.com
November 2, 2025 at 1:29 PM
The duty to keep the memories of the World War II generation alive will pass solely to us soon. The work of fighting fascism may never finish.
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BREAKING: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center is illegally closing 13 campus buildings (including ~100 laboratories).
Report coming from GESTA, the Goddard employee union
Report coming from GESTA, the Goddard employee union
November 2, 2025 at 4:55 AM
BREAKING: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center is illegally closing 13 campus buildings (including ~100 laboratories).
Report coming from GESTA, the Goddard employee union
Report coming from GESTA, the Goddard employee union
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Zara Weinberg passed away earlier this week. She joined my lab earlier this year when her postdoc lab formally closed.
She was a brilliant scientist, supportive mentor, dear friend, avid music fan, rabid believer in public transit, open science champion, and above all just an amazing human.
She was a brilliant scientist, supportive mentor, dear friend, avid music fan, rabid believer in public transit, open science champion, and above all just an amazing human.
October 31, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Zara Weinberg passed away earlier this week. She joined my lab earlier this year when her postdoc lab formally closed.
She was a brilliant scientist, supportive mentor, dear friend, avid music fan, rabid believer in public transit, open science champion, and above all just an amazing human.
She was a brilliant scientist, supportive mentor, dear friend, avid music fan, rabid believer in public transit, open science champion, and above all just an amazing human.
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One of my parents had a really terrible childhood, dropped out of HS due to parental abandonment. The other had bad luck approaching a curse. Both smart, hardworking, honest, caring, and drunks. But they treated their children well. We were on food stamps much of my minority, and it *helped.* 1/2
November 1, 2025 at 6:27 PM
One of my parents had a really terrible childhood, dropped out of HS due to parental abandonment. The other had bad luck approaching a curse. Both smart, hardworking, honest, caring, and drunks. But they treated their children well. We were on food stamps much of my minority, and it *helped.* 1/2